immediatism

American  

[ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm] / ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /

noun

U.S. History.

1. a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.

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Other Word Forms

• immediatist noun

Etymology

Origin of immediatism

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Example Sentences

He favoured immediatism, but he differed sharply from the Garrisonian abolitionists, who abhorred the federal Constitution and favoured secession.

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These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.

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Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

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They were all his, but there was another besides—immediatism.

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To this impotent apology of the great preacher of immediatism in his dealing with all kinds of sin, except the sin of slave-holding, for not espousing the cause of the slave, Mr. Garrison made his famous retort: "Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave."

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